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I am curious as to what other's ideas are for this subject. Is it measured by IQ? If not, how much is measured by IQ? How do we measure what is not measured by one's IQ?

Personally, I belive an IQ is a group of numbers that merely display an educated guess of how well you'll do in school. The most accurate IQ's are the ones with pictures that work up from simple puzzles to harder ones. The most bogus IQ tests are the silly Internet ones that teenagers take to try to show everyone how smart they are.

May I display a much loved quote by a scientist whose name I fail to recall:

Reporter: What is your IQ?

Scientist: I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ's are losers.

I so enjoy this quote because it is entertaining, and I also have no idea what my IQ is.

However, an IQ does, indeed, accurately seem to depics how well one does in school, but I do not consider that the same as intelligence.

Well then, how is intelligence actually measured? You have probably heard the idea many times, but I believe intelligence is measured by the number of questions we ask.

To ask someone a question and have them answer does not display intelligence because it merely shows that they have learn to vomit information that has been told to them. To ask unique questions requires an advanced thought process. No one can teach you how to ask questions.

The point of this thread is to have a thesis, develop an antithesis, and evolve a synthesis. You may mingle your thesis and antithesis or throw your antithesis out completely, but at least you have now heard the other side. =D

Behold a masterpiece created from paint in sixty seconds!!!

Whoops, that was actually supposed to be "synthesis" instead of "subthesis." At least I was only two letters off. ^^'

Anyways!

Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis

Your thesis is your overall first opinion.

An antithesis is created from experience or hearing another person's idea.

Your first idea, the ideas you hear, and your personal experience combine to form a synthesis, your final thought.

Example!

After taking an 8:00 class, you realize:

Thesis: 8AM classes are horrible because I am tired and cannot concentrate.

After putting up with the class for a while and having a class later on, say, at 1, you decide:

Antithesis: Taking 8AM classes is alright because I can stay awake until my next class, and I get a lot done in that time.

Unfortunately, you might flass asleep in that interval between 8 and 1 if you are so tired. You eventually develop your synthesis.

Synthesis: Taking 8AM classes is okay as long as I can stay awake until my next class.

Over time, you continue to develop a synthesis and antithesis until you finish your education and have to get up at 8AM every day of your life. LOLOL!

I do hope it makes more sense now!

Let it be known that Centronias is fantasticly intelligent.

School performance is not a particularly good indicator of intellegence, for one because it incluldes a degree of responsibility, which is not related to intelligence. It is also dependent on outside circumstances, such as attendence, subjective evalutation, and others.

For example, I tend to forget assignments, regardless of how easyily or not I could complete them. Because of this, my GPA goes down, when my intellegence has done nothing.

Also, CB, who I go to school with, if people didn't already know, was out of school a lot last year due to chronic illness, and she failed (I think.) english, simply because she could not keep up with the work assigned.

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On the topic of IQ:
IQ is an abbreviation for Intellegence Quotient. It is one out of (I'm not sure here, and I can't find specifics) about 4 quotients which measure different capacities of the mind. The capacities include intellegence, spirituality, and emotion.

These different quotients represent the differences between things like book smarts and street smarts, or more exactly, the capacity to learn things about science, versus empathy with emotions, or spiritual understanding.

IQ, though, has to represent something because data like this implies that IQ is not something totally random.

Because the quotients are capacities, people who have high quotients are not necisarily outwwardsly intelligent. At the same time, people who are normally called idiot savants, are not truely intelligent, but they have just taken in great enough informataion and can just regurgitate it back out that they can seem amazingly intelligent without having any real input of their own.

Anything else, dears?

Thanks.
You know how much I do.

LOL @ Boo!

I believe that CB has high emotional smarts and spiritual smarts.
8D

See what I did there?
I commented. Because friends make comments, not mean ironics, to eachother.

i think intelligence on it's own isn't really worth very much. If you think about a computer, able to make fast calculations and store vast amounts of information etc, you might be able to consider the computer an "intelligent" machine, but at the end of the day it is still just a machine.
An intelligent person, as i'm sure we all know, doesn't mean a good person. I think the missing element in many cases is wisdom. It takes wisdom, i think, to be able to use intelligence in any sort of productive way. To be self aware, non reactive, level headed, to understand the emotional element of humanity and make responsible decisions all take wisdom. Otherwise, all you have is an intelligent person with no substance. just another computer that exists without any real significance.